Re: Worst error messages of all time.

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From: len... Craig Scott Lennox
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 14:20

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In article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:

   Another favorite, "Can't grok <string>" I believe this was
   "lex"? Maybe "yacc"?

I believe this one is from mt, the command which controls the tape
drive.  I've seen it in both BSD and System V Unixes.  However, stodgy
old Sun (booo!! hisss!!) in another display of lack of humour,
replaced the grok error message with a bland "unknown command"
instead.


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Subject: Re: Worst error messages of all time.
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